Independent+Reading

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Topic Independent Reading

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 * This list includes texts with a wide range of complexity which will allow students to read independently at various levels of ability. Students may be assigned or allowed to choose texts based on level of ability and interest.

//In the Time of the Butterflies// (memoir) - Julia Alvarez //I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings// (autobiography) - Maya Angelou //Notes of a Native Son -// James Baldwin //The Pact: Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream// (memoir) - Davis, Jenkins, & Hunt (//Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas// (autobiography) - Frederick Douglas //Finding Fish: A Memoir -// Antwone Q. Fisher //The Woman Warrior: Memoirs of a Girlhood Among Ghosts -// Maxine Hong Kingston //Farewell to Manzanar// (memoir) - Jeanne Houston //The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother// (memoir) - James McBride //Running in the Family -// Michael Ondaatje //Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High// - Melba Patillo Beals //When I Was Puerto Rican// (memoir) - Esmerelda Santiago //Night// (autobiographical) - Elie Wiesel

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